- “Get your house in order before pushing Elgin Marbles deal, British Museum told” – The British Museum has been urged to get its own house in order amid the scandal of stolen artefacts after it emerged it was pushing ahead with plans to return the Elgin Marbles to Greece, reports the Telegraph.
- “Lucy Letby: The moral case for capital punishment” – Some crimes are so unforgivable that the majority of decent people will condone the death penalty. The particular evil of Lucy Letby meets this threshold, writes Frank Haviland in the New Conservative.
- “Pfizer drip feeds data from its pregnancy trial of COVID-19 vaccine” – So far, analysis of data from Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine trial for pregnant women shows that the trial was underpowered, poorly designed and incomplete, says Dr. Maryanne Demasi on Substack.
- “Cochrane Library: World’s preeminent medical information resource goes into tailspin” – The Editor-in-Chief of the Cochrane Library has hired a pricey consulting firm to manage missteps and scientists’ concerns over transparency, writes Paul D. Thacker on Substack.
- “Shapps risks backlash by forcing ‘luxury’ heat pumps on households, warns energy boss” – Forcing British households to adopt “luxury” heat pumps risks triggering a backlash, the U.K.’s biggest gas network operator has warned, according to the Telegraph.
- “Vandals destroy cameras on eve of Ulez expansion with wave of protests” – Anti-Ulez ‘blade runners’ were out in force ahead of Sadiq Khan’s Ulez expansion deadline, knocking over cameras and covering them with protest signs, says the Mail.
- “Sadiq Khan’s luxury Range Rover is exempt from the Ulez charge” – London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s bulletproof, taxpayer-funded Range Rover will is exempt from the Ulez fee, reports the Mail.
- “The Transport Secretary could halt the Ulez expansion – why doesn’t he?” – Mark Harper, the Secretary of State for Transport, needs to use his powers to stop the Ulez expansion, writes Simon Fawthrop in TCW.
- “Net Zero is condemning more Brits to energy poverty” – Many customers face being priced out of the electricity market altogether when supply of renewables is weak, warns Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Europe hits roadblocks in the race to switch to electric cars” – Despite progress towards a 2045 zero-emission goal, the high price of EVs has created a headache for European governments, says the Guardian.
- “Democrats’ climate change blame game for Hawaii fire confronted by reality after Maui identifies cause” – Hawaiian officials blamed recent catastrophic wildfires on the state’s main power utility and downed lines, countering Democrats who cited global warming as the cause, reports Fox News.
- “Watch: Gun-wielding rangers clear eco-protestors blockade in Nevada” – The Telegraph has video footage of gun-wielding rangers ramming through a road blockade set up by climate protesters, stopping people getting to the Burning Man festival in Nevada.
- “Growing number of countries consider making ecocide a crime” – Mexico is the latest country to consider passing a new law criminalising environmental destruction, reports the Guardian.
- “Oxford academic forced to attend equality training wins legal case” – An Oxford University academic who was forced to go on an equity and diversity training course has successfully sued the University for harassment, says the Telegraph.
- “France bans abaya robe from being worn in schools” – Muslim leaders have reacted with anger to a move by the French Government to ban the abaya in state schools, reports the Mail.
- “What went wrong at the Open University?” – The Open University is facing three legal challenges from staff and students who say they have been discriminated against because they dared to express ‘gender critical’ views, writes Alice Sullivan in the Spectator.
- “Wikipedia should focus on content creation – not social justice campaigns” – Whether or not you support climate justice – whatever that may be – it has nothing to do with Wikipedia or encyclopaedias, argues Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
- “Investors warn ‘fluffy’ ESG metrics are being gamed to boost bonuses” – Three-quarters of S&P 500 companies have disclosed that ESG metrics contributed to executives’ pay, according to Financial Review.
- “‘Not just money and math’: Young people are willing to sacrifice returns for ESG” – New data shows young people are willing to give up returns to invest in ways that supports causes they care about, reports CNBC.
- “BlackRock hit by backlash after fall in ESG votes” – The New York City comptroller has accused BlackRock, the $14.7 trillion asset management group, of giving in to critics of ESG, says Financial Review.
- “Secret intelligence leaks vs. basic common sense” – Ron Unz of the Unz Review delves into the crucial yet often overlooked issue of how leaked or manipulated intelligence can dramatically shape media stories and sway public opinion.
- “Disbelief at Reading Festival’s ban on ‘cultural appropriation’ clothes” – Reading Festival traders and attendees are openly defying one of its rules, which bans clothing that “promotes cultural appropriation”, reports the Times.
- “Senior woman interrogated by police after taking photograph of sticker critical of gender ideology” – An elderly woman was visited by West Yorkshire Police for taking a photograph of a sticker critical of gender ideology, reports Reduxx.
- “Watch: Nish Kumar gets shut down on women’s rights” – The Spectator’s Steerpike is amused by the sight of Nish Kumar – a man who identifies as a comedian – being put firmly in his place by TV presenter Lowri Turner after he said gender critical feminists were afflicted with a “brainworm”.
- “Scotland has been led into this mess by the nice but weak” – Why did Graham Linehan have to perform in the street during the Fringe this year, asks Mark Smith in the Herald.
- “Meet Oliver Anthony: The new voice of America’s working class” – Until recently, nobody had heard of Rich Men North of Richmond. Now the song is a symbol of forgotten America. The Free Press sits down with the man behind a movement.
- “‘This exposes just how hypocritical Sadiq Khan’s Ulez expansion really is’” – Richard Tice flags up a video of an intrepid young journalist testing the air quality on the London Underground and finding it far worse than the streets of Central London.
MUST WATCH!
— Richard Tice
More evidence that Mayor Khan is lying and just wants to pickpocket the poor
Londons roadside air is fine on WHO guidelines; he should worry about the Tube insteadpic.twitter.com/C3LuRDzVtY(@TiceRichard) August 28, 2023
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What a good job I didn’t need to visit a hospital during the 3 minutes in which masks weren’t required. Those moments, hazardous as they were, must have been golden, as healthcare professionals across the country briefly (and dangerously) reminded themselves what their colleagues looked like. Glad to hear they’re safe again now. Let’s have no more of this reckless face exposure in healthcare settings please, it’s just not worth the risk.
Just checking this is satire…
Nobody seems to be asking why a respiratory condition is supposedly surging in the middle of summer?
Something very wrong here.
Because this isn’t just any old respiratory virus, but SARS-COV2 (TM) virus, the Armageddon virus that will outwit us all (actually, it clearly has outwitted the so-called scientists and medical community who should know better).
COVID-19 is really a condition affecting the brain, somewhat like Alzheimer. It starts with people wrapping random stuff around their heads to get rid of that irksome feeling of being constantly visible to others and ends with them crunching phantasy numbers in a basement of Imperial college they mistakenly believe to be representable of anything other than their own, sorry madness.
Not to mention injecting themselves with a concoction with no safety data to mention, and fraudulent claims of efficacy. Worse than snake oil.
I should have added an intermediate step here
: Then, they start self-harming by constantly pricking their upper arms with needles and injecting whatever happens to be at hand because they believe it’ll vaccinate them and only thus can they avoid eternal damnation.
Because there’s nothing surging. We had the same theater last summer, just on a larger scale, because these people were still allowed to do forced mass testing of healthy pupils at the taxpayer’s expense. ONS guesstimates are continously manufactured. Whenever the outcome matches what it’s supposed to be, they’re magically making headlines.
For as long as NHS trusts have plenty of money for face coverings and routine mass testing of everyone who stays too close to a hospital for too long a time, they’re obviously flush with money and under enormous pressure of getting bored. A solution could be a law dictating that all the extra funds which have been made available to the NHS must be spend on clinical care and not on political stunts certain people in NHS management consider more important.
Corona’s witnesses will always corona when this can be excused somehow.
Are summer colds, flus that strange?
I have yet to see figures comparing this year’s respiratory virus hospital admissions versus years prior to 2020.
I actually think not. In normal times I would typically get 2 colds a year: one in the autumn (usually Nov) and one in spring summer (May/June). In fact I have repeated that pattern over the past 12 months. Means I can’t run for a week or so, and spend money on tissues and lockets. No other impacts to mention. Much like the covid.
Same here. Always been susceptible to colds. My birthday is late May – I recall having a bad cold at least twice on my birthday.
Oh joy.My last visit to my local Mid Norfolk Doctors to pick up a prescription was wonderful as all the must wear masks notices of previous visit were gone.
I guess they will be back soon .Let battle commence again..
Seriously, isn’t it time we try a different approach? This one clearly isn’t working.
I say that we take anyone we suspect of being positive for the lurgy, tie weights to their ankles and throw them in the water. If they sink and stay down for 10 minutes, they don’t have the lurgy. If they float, they have the lurgy and need to be given injections of AZ/J&J/pfisser/murderna (yes, all 4) every day for 2 weeks, in alternating orders and in varying doses. As we now know with the lurgy, after 2 weeks you will either have died or be recovered. It’s time we start using real SCIENCE rather than this hocus pocus we’ve been trying up to now.
Or we could just carry on as normal, as we do with all the other viruses floating around.
That’s a bit complicated. Can’t we just see if they weigh the same as a duck?
No, JD, that is malinfornation. They must be given the opportunity to renounce their transgressions and swear fealty to Moloch. Then and only then can they be burned to disperse their ill humours safely.
Rochelle Walensky tweeted this advice a few days ago, please keep up.
>Seriously, isn’t it time we try a different approach? This one clearly isn’t working.
It’s all so draining as well. Just fed up of all the crap. Didn’t something like 5 people died of COVID in England last week?
Maybe challenge the mask stasi with this image of the cultures grown from a mask worn for just 20 minutes…. Nice & healthy to be breathing in….
“Many medical and scientific experts agree that bacteria, not influenza viruses, were the most significant cause of death during the 1918 flu pandemic.
“We agree completely that bacterial pneumonia played a major role in the mortality of the 1918 pandemic,” says Anthony Fauci (https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14458-bacteria-were-the-real-killers-in-1918-flu-pandemic/#ixzz7Tk7UEA3j).
A study from 2014 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4202234/) indicates why this might have been the case. Masks serve as incubators for bacteria, fungi and other pathogens. Apart from the fact that masks do not affect the spread of the disease, they would need to be replaced every 20 minutes not to harm the wearer (attached pic: petri-dish after 20 min mask wearing).
So we are talking about an ineffective tool imposed on billions of people while not being effective. Instead, it pollutes the world’s oceans and requires oil/gas to be produced.
It is a kind of hypocrisy that those who pretend to be “pro-science” and “pro-environment” are strongest proponents of making wearing face masks obligatory.”
@Goddek
My initial scan of the image lead me to believe it was a small tray of seashells. I think, given the appalling reality, I’m going to continue to see it as that. Lovely whelks.
I’m posting this on FB & asking folk to guess what it is cultured from. May make folk think before sticking their nose back into the petri dish of whelks!
Indeed, the rank hypocrisy is so thick you could cut it with a knife! It is an ecological disaster at this point. There are more plastic “jellyfish” in the ocean than actual jellyfish, and that was nearly two years ago. Now there are many times more. Jacques Cousteau must be spinning in his grave right now….
And that’s before we even get into the Foegen Effect, whereby masks actually concentrate and incubate the virus further and make it MORE deadly. Google it.
I’ve read that Foegen Effect info. Yet the cut through to the main stream is so low.
Spoke yesterday with a new resident of the village. Not fully awake but open to listening, discussing & questioning. She is now fully aware of the harms to children from a developmental perspective of seeing adults fully masked up, already aware of the increase in CO2 breathed in & now aware that she can self exempt just by saying that she’s exempt.
Masks and antisocial distancing didn’t work every other time, everywhere so why do these idiots think it will work this time?
Why is a Winter season virus ‘surging’ in the Summer? mRNA ‘vaccines’ could it be, or is definitely not the ‘vaccines’ like it’s definitely not them causing sudden unexplained deaths, heart attacks, myocarditis, neurological problems, reduced fertility and increase in failed pregnancies?
Time to dig this out:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eq1TpRKW8AEkEmi?format=jpg&name=small
So it looks like the perverted mask fetishists are trying to impose a mask mandate on the whole of society again by starting with hospitals.
I suppose it will be schools next as we’ve got to ensure that we cause as much psychological damage as possible to the next generation of brainwashed proles.
Soon, we can all wonder around Tesco pretending that we are taking part in some sort of satanic initiation ceremony again (except me and about 3 other people)
I suppose the only way out of this is to try the same thing we’ve tried already and rush out an experimental barely tested 100% safe and effective mRNA injection. It’ll work this time and won’t kill or injure anyone – but only if everyone is
forcedinvited to take it.Or declare “exemption” and TTFO.
I’m not declaring an exemption as that constitutes participation. If I am challenged the response will be “NO.” And then we can have an argument.
I have been a non-participant since the start. That ain’t changing now especially given the wealth of evidence in our favour.
That’s how it starts, people. Don’t give them an inch, or they will take a mile.
Wife just had her yearly consultation by phone regarding cancer she had some years ago. Told she would be speaking to a professor. Turned out he didn’t speak much English and couldn’t understand my wife’s questions.
Well done NHS on ticking the box that an appointment had been met
I was in an NHS hospital last week and sat in a restaurant used by staff at lunchtime.
I was fascinated to watch a constant stream of no doubt highly qualified healthcare professionals walk in donning masks, sit down at tables with their colleagues, take their masks off, eat their lunch for 30 minutes while chatting to everyone, then stand up, put their masks back on and head back to work.
They of all people must know it’s all a nonsense?
I was in Spain in June, where a fair number of elderly people were still wearing the rags. An elderly couple were sitting near us having tapas and saw a couple they knew walking by, wearing face rags. The lady jumped up, embraced the other lady, who lowered her face rag to kiss her friend on the cheek, then put the face rag back over her mouth… The lurgy is well kind, it won’t get you when you eat or drink or greet friends. But go for a walk in the woods on your own…
The problem I see is that the fantasy that masks are helpful in some way is not only not going away, but reinforced with every company and institution that reintroduced it as a response to “rising infextions”. As if masks do something to stop that.
It’s just not healthy to indulge these crazy delusions. It’s going to make us all madder than we already are.
Brainwashing by the mainstream media will have that effect.
Add University Hospitals Leicester NHS trust to list.
It’s clear now that the zealots and the Covidphobic are going to keep this running and running. Especially depressing in the middle of summer.
How many times did they all listen to Chicken Licken before they started ignoring him, I can’t remember?
Shedding.
Rense – always entertaining. Just use discretion LOL!
https://mediaarchives.gsradio.net/rense/special/rense_070122_hr2.mp3
@ 35’24 plays clip of some dr regarding the hazards of shedding -vs- coronavirus.
So tell me, how successful were hospitals in preventing the spread of Covid the last time they all put on face masks?
Weren’t 2/3rd of COVID cases caught in hospital after admission?
Do not comply.
Have we learned nothing over the past three years? Nhs ruined, economy on its knees, families driven into poverty, children’s education destroyed and the idiots running this show want to repeat the horrific mistakes we now know destroyed this country. Why? Masks simply do not work. Social distancing was a manufactured decision pulled from the air. Boy oh boy if you people fold on this you deserve everything that will follow.